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 Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:03 pm
So, my alienware laptop is about to crap out and for awhile now I've been thinking about getting a mac. Are they good? is there any real difference between Mac's and other notebooks these days?
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:48 pm
Macs are really good. Im using one now. They cant get viruses and are pretty fast too
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:57 pm
AZiaN Rocker Macs are really good. Im using one now. They cant get viruses and are pretty fast too I'm sold, going mac.
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:27 pm
AZiaN Rocker Macs are really good. Im using one now. They cant get viruses and are pretty fast too I'm pretty sure anything can get a virus.
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:47 pm
Macs can get viruses, they're just hyped up as being safer. I prefer PCs.
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:11 pm
MQuestionable Macs can get viruses, they're just hyped up as being safer. I prefer PCs. I've been talking to Mac users all day. Most of them say they don't even have virus scan and they've never had a problem in over three years. You can still get spyware but virus' are apparantly non-existant on Macs.
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:36 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:01 pm
[PWG] Moki MQuestionable Macs can get viruses, they're just hyped up as being safer. I prefer PCs. I've been talking to Mac users all day. Most of them say they don't even have virus scan and they've never had a problem in over three years. You can still get spyware but virus' are apparantly non-existant on Macs. A few searches turned up some results. (Small text to save space) There are around 40 Mac-specific viruses and related threats.
++Mac users with Word 6 or versions of Word/Excel supporting Visual Basic
for Applications, however, are vulnerable to infection by macro
viruses which are specific to these applications. Indeed, these
viruses can, potentially, infect other files on any hardware
platform supporting these versions of these applications. I don't
know of a macro virus with a Mac-specific payload that actually
works at present, but such a payload is entirely possible.
++Office 98 applications are in principle vulnerable to most of the
threats to which Office 97 applications are vulnerable. I'll return
to this subject when and if time allows. [DH]
Word Mac version 5.1 and below do not support WordBasic, and are
not, therefore, vulnerable to direct infection. Not only do these
versions not only understand embedded macros, but they can't read
the Word 6 file format unaided. There is, however, at least one
freeware utility which allows Word 5.x users to read Word 6 files.
This will not support execution of Word 6 (or WinWord 2) macros in
Word 5.x, so I would not expect either an infection routine or a
payload routine to be able to execute within this application.
However, Word 5.x users may contribute indirectly to the spread of
infected files across platforms and systems, since it is perfectly
possible for a user whose own system is uninfectable to act as a
conduit for the transmission of infected documents, whether or not
s/he reads it personally.
Files infected with a PC-specific file virus (this excludes macro
viruses) can only execute on a Macintosh running DOS or DOS/Windows
emulation, if then. They can, of course, spread across platforms
simply by copying infected files from one system to another.
DOS diskettes infected with a boot sector virus can be read on a
Mac with Apple File Exchange, PC Exchange, DOS Mounter etc. without
(normally) risk to the Mac. However, leaving such an infected disk
in the drive while booting an emulator such as SoftPC can mean that
the virus attempts to infect the logical PC drive with
unpredictable results.
I am aware of at least one instance of a Mac diskette which, when
read on a PC running a utility for reading Mac-formatted disks
after being infected with a boot-sector infector, became unreadable
as a consequence of the boot track infection.
Some Mac viruses may damage files on Sun systems running MAE or
AUFS. A few different types of viruses: 7.1 Mac-specific system and file infectors
7.2 HyperCard Infectors
7.3 Mac Trojans
7.4 Macro viruses, trojans, variants
7.5 Other Operating Systems, emulation on a Mac
7.6 AutoStart 9805 Worms
7.7 Esperanto 4733 And a sentence to sum it up: Macs aren't immune to viruses, but they are very rare.I mean, I agree that they are safer, but I wouldn't say that there are no viruses at all. There's always exceptions and stuff.
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:27 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:50 pm
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:49 pm
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:43 pm
It's just that it's easier to make a virus for windows than it is for macs... I used to know why, but I don't remember. They're safer from viruses, but you can still get em.
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:59 pm
I wish I still had my mac. I prefer macs since i'm used to them and they are safer then pcs but with most games macs aren't compatable.
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:21 pm
[PWG] Moki So, my alienware laptop is about to crap out and for awhile now I've been thinking about getting a mac. Are they good? is there any real difference between Mac's and other notebooks these days? yea mac's are awsome they can now open in os 10 (the current operating system for mac) or windows and they run great and have verry little virsus that they can get
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:40 pm
I forgot to say
Macs are good if your into video editing
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